Ask HN: Do you still use Antivirus in 2022?

Re:Ask HN: Do you still use Antivirus in 2022? by LinuxBender on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:07PM (#30388285)

I submit files to VirusTotal [1] all the time. The files are tested against roughly 60 AV tools and through sandboxed analyzers that explain some characteristics and behavior of the files.

[1] - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use Antivirus in 2022? by tcgv on Friday February 18, 2022 @02:01PM (#30389731)

Interesting. So you download files and submit it to VirusTotal before opening locally? Are they free or they charge when you increase usage?

What about private/sensitive files, do you use them or have another procedure in place?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use Antivirus in 2022? by LinuxBender on Friday February 18, 2022 @02:10PM (#30389845)

So you download files and submit it to VirusTotal before opening locally?

Yes.

Are they free or they charge when you increase usage?

I believe they do have limits for free usage but I have never hit them. Businesses have paid relationships with them to use their API.

What about private/sensitive files

The only executable files that fit the description would be 0-days that friends created in my prior professional career and those files I knew were malicious by design so I would not submit them unless I wanted to trip up their demonstrations.

For anything that appears to be multimedia but may have come from an untrusted source I will analyze the file myself using open source tools or if in doubt I will just delete the files.

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